Carpenterella (fungus)

Carpenterella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Chytridiomycota
Class:	Chytridiomycetes
Order:	Synchytriales
Family:	Synchytriaceae
Genus:	Carpenterella Tehon & H. A. Harris
Species:	C. molinea
Binomial name
Carpenterella molinea Tehon & H. A. Harris
Synonyms   [1]
Carpenterophlyctis molinae(Tehon & H. A. Harris) Doweld [2]

Carpenterella is a genus erected for a species of chytrid fungus, Carpenterella molinea, that inhabits the deep vascular xylem tissues of the Moline variety of the American elm tree, causing disease. ^[3] The genus name recognizes American plant pathologist Clarence Willard Carpenter (1888-1946), ^[4] who described a similar fungus in relation to chlorotic streak disease of sugar cane in Hawaii. ^{[5] [6]}

References

1. "Carpenterella molinea". MycoBank. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
2. Alexander Doweld. 2013. Nomenclatural novelties. Index Fungorum, No. 30, p. 1; http://www.indexfungorum.org/Publications/Index%20Fungorum%20no.30.pdf, accessed 25 Jan 2016.
3. Leo R. Tehon & Hubert A. Harris (1941). "A chytrid inhabiting xylem in the Moline elm". Mycologia . 33 (1): 118–129. doi:10.1080/00275514.1941.12020799. JSTOR   3754743.
4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
5. C. W. Carpenter (1940). "A chytrid in relation to chlorotic streak disease of sugar cane". Hawaiian Planters Record . 44 (1): 19–33.
6. Pan-Pacific Union: First Pan-Pacific Educational Conference, Honolulu, August 11–24, 1921, Program and Proceedings, p. 13; http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca3/4/programproceedin00panpuoft/programproceedin00panpuoft.pdf.